The Asian Flower Mantis (Creobroter gemmatus) from near Jakarta, Indonesia. This photo got a commendation in Digital Camera Magazine (UK) Photographer of the Year – Macro category SOLD as a Laminated Print on 14 Dec 2007
In the summer, my backyard is full of butterflies Background blurred in Photoshop 7 © Cadence Gamache
Ok.. I had a choice of just a few captures of the Dragon Of Passion. As all you Digital Photo people know, Take many pictues and throw away many.. My Wife liked the first one I posted and I listen to my Wife.. She is at work now so I will upload this on Dial UP … OMG.. and share it .. For hand held and low light with a 70-300 Sigma .. I have a Super Macro coming in soon.. will work with that learning curve and limited DOF.. / Chuck This Would Look Great By Your Desk
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Took this in my backyard. I followed her around the yard for half an hour. I don’t know which of us was more patient with the other, but she finally posed for this quick capture.
The Champion Moth is actually a butterfly. It’s a common misconception even among lepidopterists who can often be found lepidopting away in ignorance of this very pertinent fact. I started with the idea of opaque butterfly wings. Then I saw a pattern emerging in my work, a bad thing. And I should where it’s convenient always take things one step further with every project, so I had a vacancy for something new. It was then a case of figuring out what is the opposite of what one would expect. I was reading about how sparkplugs work and it was interesting stuff. Why they are the shape they are etc. Very interesting to me anyway. And butterflies could be shaped like sparkplugs with wings, that was credible enough for me. Then there was some minor photoshopping just to bring out the colours that were in the scan already. I don’t know how they get in there but I’m happy enough to use them because they’re an analog effect. I’d like to thank my always-obliging hacksaw blade who did a fantastic job teaming up with a piece of string to make a curved ruler sort of thing. When I was coming to the end of the drawing phase I was reminded of one of my favourite quotes from The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams: / It was a large mattress, and probably one of quite high quality. Very few things actually get manufactured these days, because in an infinitely large Universe such as, for instance, the one in which we live, most things one could possibly imagine, and a lot of things one would rather not, grow somewhere. A forest was discovered recently in which most of the trees grew ratchet screwdrivers as fruit. The life cycle of ratchet screwdriver fruit it quite interesting. Once picked it needs a dark dusty drawer in which it can lie undisturbed for years. Then one night it suddenly hatches, discards its outer skin which crumbles into dust, and emerges as a totally unidentifiable little metal object with flanges at both ends and a sort of ridge and a sort of hole for a screw. This, when found, will get thrown away. No one knows what it is supposed to gain from this. Nature, in her infinite wisdom, is presumably working on it. / No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures which live quiet private lives in the marshes of Squornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seem to mind and all of them are called Zem. Bearpaw (a very nice person) wrote this incredible bit about it. / The moth/butterfly represents evolving, the spark plug represents not letting the spark within die, the flower represents a persons’ sense of fragility/purity. / Thanks Bearpaw. Add theyellowfury to your watchlist Copyright © 2008 Simon Deevy. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image or text without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
“Radiance” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © Soft and delicate, a monarch butterfly / basks in the morning sunlight. “Learning how to be still, to really be still / and let life happen – / that stillness becomes a radiance.” / ~ Morgan Freeman Competition: Winner of the Queensland groups – Flutterbies of Qld Radiance was featured in the: Prize Challenges Group
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This is a really old piece but I uploaded it since I wanted a card of it :)
So it’s been a while since I’ve uploaded any new artwork I know! / This one was fun to create, hope you like :) Pen, pencil, photoshop.
I know that shot could have been better executed, had to post it just for the fun of it, / comments and critique of all kinds are welcome. /
Oil Pastel And Acrylic On Wood (With Minor Digital Enhancements) Ophelia wishes all of us a great new year in 2009 filled with hopes and promises, it’s time to usher in the new things in our life! This is an all-occasion card, for birthday greetings, party invitations, congratulations and of course new year greetings :D You can view and buy my other “The Old Has Gone, The New Has Come” creations from my Zazzle Gallery:
BRITISH WILDLIFE SERIES This is the last of my older works (I think) / Swan Splash was done about 20 years ago / One of my first pen and ink drawings in this / style. / I have done this piece about 5 times for / exhibitions over the years (different sizes and / slightly different details) but this is the original / that only I have. It was a bit beaten up as I used / it as a reference, so its been cleaned up a bit / in PS to make it presentable once more. xx A New Art Print is Available over on Zazzle- Square Format with dove grey border and text …............. /
Sold more cards of this image today, thank you sooooooooooo much to my mystery buyers….dec 09… / My little hopper was captured using a DSLR with a Canon 100mm macro lens and tripod. Photographed in Tasmania, Australia. Great card for any occassion…. / This image has been featured on the / Red Bubble home page March 2009 / Another one of my bug images has been featured on red bubble home page the image is called White Valley! Two home page features in one week….so excited. thank you all… / This image is also on page 10 of Red Bubble all time favourite images… see here />My New 2010 Calender / Chalenges Won / 1:1 Macro Photography Group: Won the March Avatar Challenge / A Photographer’s Craft group: Won February Challenge / The Woman Photographer Group: Macro Bugs Challenge and itty bitty teeny tiny (ie..very small) challenge FEATURED IN THE FOLLOWING GROUPS: / A Class of Its Own Dec 09 / Bubble $uccess Stories Sept 09 / Featured Only Sept 2009 / 1:1 Macro Photography Feb 2009 / A Photographer’s Craft Feb 2009 / Featured Only Aug 2009 / Canon DSLR Group Feb 2009 / The Woman Photographer March 2009 / Extreme Close-Ups March 2009 / All The Colors of the Rainbow April 2009 / Australian Wildlife June 2009 / Focus and Lighting July 2009 / If it doesn’t belong Sept 2009 / ! Bubble $uccess Stories ! I found this tiny little Australian Grasshopper hopping around in my vegi patch. The flowers photographed in this image where also from my garden. / Photographing grasshoppers was new to me when I found this little guy in my garden, he was so green and cute I had to try and get a photo of him. / He didn’t sit still for long, I had a few seconds, but when he looked straight at me I knew (hoped) this is going to be very special. !another one of my bug pics called White Valley! has been featured on red bubble home page March 2009 / Two home page features in one week….so excited. thank you all… / http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u58/gamam1/congratulations8.jpg / yeyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!
Featured in Style! Class! Elegance! Excellence! April 18, 2009. / Featured in Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies Group February 8, 2009. / Winner of the “Backed in Black” Challenge in Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies Group Challenge February 7, 2009. The fritillaries and other butterflies and I got to be great friends during the warm weather last year. A wonderful benefit of all the hard work in the garden is not only pretty flowers, but the guests they entice to visit!! Image taken July 2, 2008 with the Nikon D40x, using the Nikon 70-300mm VR lens.
Sold a matted print of this image today Dec 09, thank you kindly to my mystery buyer, hope you enjoy my little bug…. / This image was captured in the highlands of Tasmania, using a Canon DSLR and a 100mm Canon macro lens and always a tripod.. / This image has been featured on / red bubble home page Two home page features in one week….so excited. thank you all…! / / My New 2010 Calender !features.jpghttp://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u58/gamam1/congratulations8.jpg! White Valley has been featured in the folowing groups / The Woman Photographer Feb 2009 / 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE Feb 2009 / Butterflies, Skippers, Feb 2009 / Ladybugs Feb 2009 / Focus and Lighting July 2009 / Your Accepted / See my other pic featured on home page this week March 2009 /
Top Ten in Color Me A Rainbow’s “Best of Featured Pink Works” April 2, 2009. / Winner of the “Breaking the Rules II: Depth of Field” Challenge in Photography 101 and Featured in the group, March 30, 2009. / Featured in Color Me A Rainbow March 26, 2009. / Featured in # 1 Artists of Redbubble February 19, 2009. / Featured in Macro Photography February 19, 2009. / Featured in Dimensions February 17, 2009.* Another one of my shy garden guests from last summer. I think one of the things I like about this one is it sort of gives a bug’s eye view of the world … their little world!!! Image taken on August 15, 2008 with the Nikon D40x, using the Nikon 60mm macro lens. Shutter Speed 1/800, aperture f/7.1, exposure -.33 and iso 200. Slightly cropping to bring the butterfly into the sweet spot.
A watercolor-on-paper series depicting the signs of the Zodiac. 9×12 / 2009
Caterpillar on a daisy. Kwinana Western Australia Olympus E-410 Spotlight of the day in the group – Bug Hunt / Featured in the group – 1:1 Macro Photography / Featured in the group – Sets of Two (with ‘Caterpillar’) / Featured in – The Western Australia Group – 06/12/09 Also See:
Found these ladybirds covered in pollen crawling all over these small flowers and partying in a cup!!! Canon 400D 18-55 lens with two stage extension tube.
Featured in Dimensions August 20, 2009. Best on Full Size Having some fun with the macro/micro lens in my garden (Montgomery County, Maryland) the other day, August 3, 2009, I found this darling little critter (thought she was a grasshopper but have been told by wiser heads than mine that she’s a Katy-Did) enjoying brunch. Loved the way she munched away on the flower thingie like a cob of hot buttered corn!!!! Handheld image taken with the Nikon D300 and the 60mm Nikon macro/micro lens. Shutter 1/640, aperture f/13, exp -.33, iso 200. Minor cropping and levels work in Photoshop.
I had a vision to turn my colorful bug images into sepia toned black and white images with a touch of color. But didn’t know how, until today….. So a big thank you to two wonderful people here at Red bubble, Diane Schuster for all her help in teaching me and also to Prasad for his very helpful tutorial… / Love to know what you all think of my new work…..photograph taken in Tasmania, Australia, using a 100mm Canon macro lens and Canon DSLR. My New 2010 Calender *FEATURED IN THE FOLLOWING GROUPS: / A Photographer’s Craft / Depth Of Field / Style! Class! Elegance! Excellence! *
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